This author wrote memorable works such as, A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities.
Who is Charles Dickens?
100
This man was the leader of the Congress of Vienna.
Who is Klemens von Metternich?
100
These wars took place between the Chinese and the British over drug trade.
What are the Opium Wars?
100
This movement was used to justify the dominance of Western nations in the 19th century. It was borrowed from the works of a famous naturalist.
What is Social Darwinism?
100
Name the 4 dogs that live on campus.
Who are Shine, Shadow, Waldo, and ZuZu?
200
This man traveled on the Beagle and devoted his life to being a naturalist.
Who is Charles Darwin?
200
This man wrote The Communist Manifesto.
Who is Karl Marx?
200
This system, named for a Chinese port, limited foreign merchants to usage of a single port.
What is the Canton System?
200
This Belgian king bought the Congo.
Who is King Leopold II?
200
Name the three sports offered in the Spring.
What are lacrosse, drama, outdoor ed?
300
This musician believed that he expressed himself through music. He even composed after he became deaf.
Who is Beethoven?
300
Four years after being elected president of France, this man asked for the restoration of the empire.
Who is Louis Napoleon?
300
This Indian leader called for peaceful satygrahas in order to move India toward freedom.
Who is Ghandi?
300
Half of the Congo was filled with a plant that was used to make this high demand material.
What is rubber?
300
This teacher has worked at Woodhall for the longest time.
Who is Mr. Craig?
400
This women worked as a nurse and helped the military reform their hospitals.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
400
This Southern Italian was head of the Red Shirts. He conquered Naples and Sicily, then turned them over to Piedmont.
Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi?
400
This sanskrit word means nonviolence.
What is ahimsa?
400
These people were descendants of the original Dutch settlers of South Africa.
Who are the Boers?
400
Sunday brunch begins at this time.
What is 10 am?
500
This man demonstrated that organisms such as bacteria were responsible for souring wine and beer. He then proved that bacteria could be removed by heating and then cooling a liquid.
Who is Pasteur?
500
This German practiced realpolitik.
Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi?
500
King Mongkut was in control of this only Southeast Asian country not colonized by a European power.
What is Thailand?
500
The British put in place this type of rule, which typically keeps the local elite in power, instead of putting British people in charge.
What is indirect rule?
500
The Woodhall School has been open for this number of years.